Focus Article

Members of the South African Coalition for Transitional Justice call upon the President to reconsider the processes that he has announced are underway to resuscitate the Special Dispensation for Presidential Pardons for apartheid-era perpetrators of political crimes. The applications arise from the ‘Special Dispensation on Political Pardons’ launched by former President Thabo Mbeki in 2007 in order to “promote national reconciliation and unity” and“complete the unfinished business of the TRC”.